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Legions of boom : Filipino American mobile DJ crews in the San Francisco Bay Area / Oliver Wang.
LIBRA F870.F4 W364 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wang, Oliver, 1972- author.
- Series:
- Refiguring American music
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Filipino American youth--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Music--History--20th century.
- Filipino American youth.
- Filipino Americans--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Ethnic identity.
- Filipino Americans.
- Disc jockeys--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History--20th century.
- Disc jockeys.
- History.
- Ethnicity.
- Music.
- California--San Francisco Bay Area.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 218 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- Chronicles the history of the San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American mobile DJ scene of the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. He shows how DJ crews helped unify the Bay Area's Filipino American community, gave its members social status and brotherhood, and drew huge crowds. --Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- A legion of boom
- Cue it up: social preconditions for the mobile scene
- Team building: mobile crew formations
- Unlimited creations: the mobile scene takes off
- Imaginings: building community in the showcase era
- Take me out with the fader: the decline of the mobile scene
- Echo effects
- Captains of the field: San Francisco drill teams
- Born versus sworn: Filipino American youth gangs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822359043
- 0822359049
- 9780822358909
- 0822358905
- OCLC:
- 885231485
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